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Elise C. Allen @ecallen.bsky.social · May 29

🚨Excited to share this new publication with @pnbeymer.bsky.social!

Patrick Beymer @pnbeymer.bsky.social · May 29

🚨🚨🚨 New publication alert! We took a look at students' reported costs in chemistry, statistics, and English composition and examined how they differed over time, across courses, and by gender! @ecallen.bsky.social

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(PDF) Students' Costs in Chemistry, Statistics, and English: Exploring Course, Time, and Gender Author Note

PDF | Situated expectancy-value theory posits that students' academic outcomes are influenced by their expectancy beliefs and the value they place on... | Find, read and cite all the research you need...

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Patrick Beymer @pnbeymer.bsky.social · May 9

New article out with @ecallen.bsky.social & @emilyqr.bsky.social where we examined precursors of cost perceptions!

50 days free access here!

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Precursors of students’ cost perceptions: Identifying proximal and distal predictors

Studies of students’ cost perceptions have been prevalent in recent years; however, little work has examined what may precede the formation of these c…

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Elise C. Allen @ecallen.bsky.social · May 13

🚨 Super excited to share my new paper in CEP on precursors of students' cost perceptions with @pnbeymer.bsky.social and @emilyqr.bsky.social! We found that weekly perceptions of belonging and reported use of SRL lowered cost perceptions the following week. Read it here for free for 50 days!

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Elise C. Allen @ecallen.bsky.social · Apr 3

Yes, I’m sure that’s also true! I wonder if the virtual component will resurface. It’s definitely a bit of no-win situation.

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Elise C. Allen @ecallen.bsky.social · Apr 2

I totally agree with the sentiment behind this, though I think we’d lose out on a lot of students (in particular) attending! Most people I know who are on visas (and even green cards) right now are afraid to travel internationally :/

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Elise C. Allen @ecallen.bsky.social · Feb 16

Well, they did it - notice of a move to threaten federal funding over DEI. While not surprising, this is still so disheartening.

They claimed that it’s illegal to “treat students differently on the basis of race to achieve nebulous goals such as…social justice and equity”….😢

Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · Feb 16

In 1964, the Civil Rights Act was passed, marking the legal end to Jim Crow in the USA. Its Title VI banned discrimination by race among any institution that receives Federal funds.

On Friday, the Acting head of the Ed Dept sent out this letter to all 50 states:

www.ed.gov/media/docume...

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alt-dea @alt-dea.altgov.info · Feb 16

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Trump prepares to wipe out years of progress on gun violence

An executive order threatens “ghost gun” regulations, red flag laws, and more.

www.motherjones.com

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Elise C. Allen @ecallen.bsky.social · Feb 12

Appreciate you taking the time to share this :) As a new faculty member who was looking at MSI grant opportunities, it’s hard to know where to start. But I’m with you on continuing the work however we can!

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Sylvia Perry @sylviapperry.bsky.social · Feb 11

I encourage everyone to go through to see the grants that have been categorized as "woke DEI." It's disgusting. www.commerce.senate.gov/2025/2/cruz-...

Cruz-Led Investigation Uncovers $2 Billion in Woke DEI Grants at NSF, Releases Full Database

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · Feb 8

This Idaho health district banned public clinics from distributing the coronavirus vaccine as widespread fear during the pandemic fades from public memory.

In Idaho, a preview of RFK Jr.’s vaccine-skeptical America

This Idaho health district banned public clinics from distributing the coronavirus vaccine as widespread fear during the pandemic fades from public memory.

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Elise C. Allen @ecallen.bsky.social · Feb 5

Well, that didn’t take long to start happening…😞

Kate Clancy @kateclancy.bsky.social · Feb 4

Well just received this email regarding a paper under review:

Screenshot of an email that reads: "Dear Authors,

As you may know, the new presidential administration in the United States has issued Executive Orders, including one that impacts foreign aid. 

As part of these Executive Orders, USAID-funded projects have received stop work orders. Given the circumstance, we must stop all work on Global Health: Science and Practice. As such, I regret that we will have to postpone processing submitted papers. We know that a lot of work has gone into preparing your paper. Please feel free to take your manuscript elsewhere.

Thank you for your understanding and cooperation during this challenging time.  

Sincerely,

Natalie Culbertson
Managing Editor
Global Health: Science and Practice Journal"

Elise C. Allen @ecallen.bsky.social · Feb 5

www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Federal health workers terrified after 'DEI' website publishes list of 'targets'

The site calls out workers who have been involved with DEI initiatives. A majority are Black.

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Jessica Gephart @jagephart.bsky.social · Feb 5

Another funding opportunity is gone. NSF archived the the Career-Life Balance program which provided supplemental funding when researchers are on family leave.

The small strides we had made toward improving representation in science are being undone so fast.

new.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

Career-Life Balance (CLB) Supplemental Funding Requests

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · Feb 4

🚨BREAKING: Three unions, represented by Forward Democracy, file federal lawsuit to BLOCK the co-called “Fork Directive” Feb. 6 deadline.

For breaking democracy news follow @democracydocket.com
www.democracydocket.com

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · Feb 4

This is the way they do it in Budapest and Moscow.

A tweet from the account "U.S. Attorney DC". The tweet includes a statement from Edward R. Martin Jr., the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia. The statement is presented in a quote box and reads: "Our initial review of the evidence presented to us indicates that certain individuals and/or groups have committed acts that appear to violate the law in targeting DOGE employees" said Edward R. Martin Jr., U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia. "We are in contact with FBI and other law-enforcement partners to proceed rapidly. We also have our prosecutors preparing." Below the quote, there is a section with the name "Edward R. Martin Jr." and the title "United States Attorney District of Columbia" along with the seal of the Department of Justice.

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David A. Graham @dgraham.bsky.social · Feb 4

Only one of these two people is a democratically elected official, and Elon isn't him

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Elise C. Allen @ecallen.bsky.social · Feb 4

Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · Feb 3

They never give up. Neither can we.

"The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) argued Monday that a federal court order blocking President Donald Trump’s federal funding freeze doesn’t halt the administration’s efforts." www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

DOJ Says Trump Administration Doesn’t Have to Follow Court Order Halting Funding Freeze

Read more here.

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Stephanie LaTour @stephanielatour.bsky.social · Feb 2

There will be a protest on SUNDAY Feb. 2 at 3:00 p.m. outside the federal Office of Personnel Management (OPM) bldg., where Musk & his cyber-thugs have seized control of the government's computers. 1900 E Street NW (corner of E and 19th Sts.), Wash. DC. Spread the word to DC area folks!

Stephanie LaTour @stephanielatour.bsky.social · Feb 2

www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...

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Paul Kingsley @paulkingsley7.bsky.social · Feb 2

“NSF this week began to search through billions of dollars of grants the agency has already awarded for anything touching on topics that President Donald Trump has criticized. … NSF has blocked grantees and trainees from accessing funds while the review is underway”🧪
www.science.org/content/arti...

EXCLUSIVE: NSF starts vetting all grants to comply with Trump’s orders

Grantee accounts remain frozen, while union accuses NSF of ignoring rules governing peer review

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · Feb 2

What is the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP)?
➡️ 15 experts who develop vaccine recommendations for the US. (vaccinology, immunology, etc & 1 consumer rep)
➡️ Selected by the Secretary of Health and Human Services. If RFK Jr is chosen, he will appoint folks who undermine vaccines.

The shape of the U.S. with enlarged letters A-C-I-P written across the country. This odd word art style has an image in
each letter: two doctors, a mother and child, vaccine bottle, a doctor consoling a patient.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · Feb 1

Resources for scientists who are being threatened or targeted below from the @nationalacademies.org www.nationalacademies.org/chr/resource...

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Elise C. Allen @ecallen.bsky.social · Feb 1

Pretty confident that this would affect basically every manuscript I’ve ever written or read….

insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...

BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.

Any unpublished manuscript mentioning certain topics, including gender and "LGBT," must be pulled or revised.

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Elise C. Allen @ecallen.bsky.social · Feb 1

Thanks, Destiny! Hope you are doing well :)

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Elise C. Allen @ecallen.bsky.social · Feb 1

📢Excited to share our new article on #achievementgoals and #costperceptions in #STEM. Results suggest that the combination of performance-avoidance goals and high cost perceptions may be particularly harmful for students. Check it out!

link.springer.com/10.1007/s112...

Barriers to success: Do achievement goals predict differential cost perceptions and outcomes? - Social Psychology of Education

Students’ motivational beliefs, specifically, their achievement goals and cost perceptions, were examined in undergraduate introductory physics (N = 877). Prior research has shown that the combination...

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Joel Mittleman @joeljm.bsky.social · Jan 31

The CDC’s Youth Risk Behavior Survey has monitored the wellbeing of America’s high school students since 1991.

Since 2015, it’s been a vital source of data on LGBQ youth. In 2023, it provided the first ever nationally representative sample of transgender teens.

As of this morning, it’s gone.

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